Sentences with phrase «allows victims of sexual assault»

A new housing bill in Colorado allows victims of sexual assault and stalking to break a residential rental lease agreement, letting tenants move out without incurring any fines or financial penalties.

Cuomo's policy would also allow victims of sexual assault to choose whether to involve state police in the investigation of an alleged incident.

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Gipson notes the law would give judges the discretion to allow facility dogs for not only child abuse victims, but for any victim or witness of a violent crime or sexual assault, as well any children or adults impaired in any way, on the defense or prosecution side.

Most of them do not allow minors to sign up, but even in those cases there have been numerous incidents where minors signed up as adults and ended up the victims of sexual assaults.

Viewing the Female Prisoner Scorpion movies was like a self - exorcism that allowed my own history as a sexual assault victim to be an event I could discuss more openly instead of carrying it silently like a millstone attached to my back.

Justice Topolniski held, at para. 2, that Judge Savaryn misapplied the law of consent and went on to state this, at paras. 24 - 5: «There is no place for sexual stereotyping in sexual assault cases and no inference should be drawn about a complainant's credibility on how a victim of sexual assault is to react to the trauma... [T] he criminal justice system must not allow myths and stereotypes about sexual assault victims to influence outcomes.

Finally, funding allows The Project to participate in targeted outreach and trainings to college and university students, faculty, campus law enforcement, and others on the legal rights of victims of sexual assault, leveraging its experience with youth and education law to benefit that especially vulnerable population.»

These changes will allow victims of historical sexual assaults who were previously barred from suing because of expired limitation periods to file lawsuits for compensation... Read advocatedaily.com article